Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
TOM PETTYIf I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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